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Now, as expected, the Windows 11 leak begins
Windows 11 Enterprise Overview Windows 11 The main part of this announcement should have been the introduction of major user interface changes codenamed Sun Valley. As you know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X is not released. Windows 11 Enterprise’s core features will have a completely new design in Windows 11. It is clear that Microsoft needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and still abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And the brand new design is perfect for it.
Home and system items will float above the bottom bar
The Redmond giant has long been preparing an update design codenamed Sun Valley, which was apparently the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers drew realistic concepts in their circle based on all this data. Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows. Not surprisingly, Windows 11 programmers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually – the Start window will hang above the bottom bar. Admittedly, these minor changes make the system feel much fresher.
The rectangles will disappear, replaced by fillets
Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “inside” of this menu – the updates will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float and have the exact same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with control buttons, similar to what some other operating systems have been doing for a long time. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island with controls in one separate panel, notifications in another, and specific items (like the player) in another separate panel. In fact, insiders and concept creators are divided on this issue, some are convinced that Microsoft will not change its tradition and stick to right angles, while others believe that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fillet fashion.
There will be a transparent background with a blur everywhere
The latter better fits the definition of “completely new Windows”—start menus alone aren’t enough to make a new design truly new. The fillet is expected to affect practically everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, the opinions of the creators of the concept differ on this issue as well – some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine at right angles. There is disagreement on the Internet about the style of the window islands, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows. Most of the leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, whether it’s at least the Start menu or the browser.
A new font that is already displayed
Moreover, these effects appear even when installing the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed for devices with two screens and weak apps in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency means the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spaces between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly increase, and page titles will be condensed. Windows 11 will likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.